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Patriotism, Thanksgiving - and Apple Sauce

Alistair Cooke looks back to the origins of the festival and remembers the day in 1938 when Franklin D Roosevelt declared 24 November to be "a day of general Thanksgiving".

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Fri 29 Nov 200221:00
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